Re: [TIED] Reanimating Indoeuropean?

From: Mark Odegard
Message: 2722
Date: 2000-06-21

 
From: Manuel Rosario <indoeuropean@...>

But the most attracting idea for me
is to reanimate IE and try to adapt it to modern life. Why not?
 
'Neo-Indo-European' is an intriguing idea. PIE, of course, cannot be accurately recovered and turned back into living language, and even if it were, it would undoubtedly be hideously irregular, no matter which stage you chose as your base.
 
On the other hand, if you synthesized a 'regularized' Neo-IE, by more or less creating a hybrid out of Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic and Lithuanian, I wonder what we'd get, and how difficult it would be to learn.
 
Mark.